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Plant Slurs (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (9 children)

aggressive spread and resilience to removal

Humans are a weed.

becomes a weed when it's suddenly everywhere and you are fighting constantly to get rid of it

(Humans! :))
But you are fighting constantly to get rid of it bcs of some arbitrary goals. And the fact it's spreading means that it's perfectly adapted for survival in that environment you created, so it's perfect for that pace.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

No weed is for plant. Fir animals its pest/vermin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

True. Which still leads to an infestation.

On non-logarithmic scale:

And don't forget that shown is just the last couple of thousand of years - there are 4 more millions of years prior to this of slow growth (and some collapses) but it wouldn't even register on such a chart.

Ugh, I guess this is far off topic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The average growth rate from 10,000 BCE to 1700 was just 0.04% per year.

Wow that's crazy to me. I had always envisioned humans steadily spreading and growing constantly. I had no idea that we were basically treading water for so long.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yeah, 4 million years of various "humanoid" species cohabiting & barely making it through (one big event wiping out the whole species - that's why we have such a shallow gene pool & all look "identical" relative to difs in other species).

But the rapid growth was always unsustainable, the gens lived on natural wealth that they just took out of (into?) the economy way quicker than the replenishing cycle. But the difference between a million and a billon is unimaginable, that's why we can now witness the collapse (mass extinction event) within a generation.

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